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Bug#464977: marked as done (libc6: iconv drops the last character in a windows-1255 string if it's non ascii)

Your message dated Sun, 2 Mar 2008 12:59:20 +0100
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and subject line Re: Bug#464977: Bug 464977: unreproducible
has caused the Debian Bug report #464977,
regarding libc6: iconv drops the last character in a windows-1255 string if it's non ascii
to be marked as done.

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Package: libc6
Version: 2.7-6
Severity: important


a valid windows-1255 string is translated to utf-8 by droping it's last char.

it happens only if that last char is non-ascii itself.

for example, "\xe1\xe2\xe3". it translates to a 2 characters long string.

it doesn't happen with other windows-* codepages, neither with the similar 
iso-8859-8 equivalent.

this is probably an upstream bug, but i report it here not to polute the 
upstream mailing list with not generally attending people. but i know 
debian maintainers are there :) .

best regards,

alex

-- System Information:
Debian Release: lenny/sid
  APT prefers testing
  APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.22-3-686 (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages libc6 depends on:
ii  libgcc1                 1:4.3-20080116-1 GCC support library

libc6 recommends no packages.

-- debconf information:
  glibc/restart-failed:
  glibc/restart-services:

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On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:40:54AM +0200, alex bodnaru wrote:
>
>
> Aurelien Jarno wrote:
>> alex bodnaru a écrit :
>>> hi aurelien,
>>>
>>> i could run alex's test with no problem, so my memory is fine, too.
>>>
>>> the problem occured in a lua binding to iconv, and a few years ago in 
>>> php, but i don't remember whether iconv or recode binding
>>
>> If the problem can't be reproduce with alex's test, it is more likely a 
>> bug in the lua binding. Care to report the bug here instead?
>>
> i definitely agree with you. i will inquire it further in lua.

Ok, I am therefore closing the bug open on the glibc.



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